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comment by amouseinmyhouse
amouseinmyhouse  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Could you live without a computer or smartphone?

This just seems like you want a life with fewer distractions and you're ready to change everything about the way you live other than just implementing control.

You could go get an old alarm clock, a watch, a typewriter, a land line, and a dozen other things we've spent years figuring out how to get rid of. Or, you could push yourself to not be controlled by your technology. When you're at a bus stop or out to dinner don't pull out your phone, just sit and take in what's going on around you. You've already killed your social media, which is great, but even on reddit and hubski try to pay attention to what's valuable and not just what's easy. It's easy to chomp through 30 memes in a row, it's not to read a #goodlongread.

I like my digital devices precisely because I had to live without them at one point in my life. I agree that they can be addicting, I agree that they can cut you off, but they can also connect, and they can also help you do more than any other time in history.

That's my view.